The Great Gatsby

He throws the best parties on Long Island. He is not in them. He is watching the water. Jay Gatsby has a mansion, a smile, and a past he paid to erase. Nobody can say where the money comes from. Everybody drinks it anyway. Across the bay: a green light, a girl he lost, a husband who breaks things for sport. Next door, a nobody from the Midwest starts taking notes. This is a love story that is also a heist. The prize is Daisy. The cost is everything that isn’t her. Come for the champagne. Stay for the man who bought the skyline and still cannot cross a hundred yards of water.